Terribly, terribly sad, freakish, tragic. Watch them come out of the woodwork now to say these boats should be banned etc. No they shouldn’t – this is state of the art we’re talking about here. This is the cutting edge. In my time racing A Class, there was always the danger because the rig packed [...]
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Last evening, I posted on Steve Johnson and mentioned the other guy also reaching a milestone but didn’t run a post on him. That’s Johnson in the photo with him today:
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Biographies can often be tedious for readers, more particularly if the subject is a footballer. That’s guaranteed to have a large section of the readers click out and fair enough. I wanted though to bring you this man because he is special.
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A now forgotten type? A R Powys (1882 – 1936), was an architect and preserver of ancient buildings who also wrote essays on architecture, and one of them in the book that I came across, From the Ground Up, was titled Origins of Bad Architecture. This is a question that has long troubled me, so [...]
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Feast of music today from three of us. I’ll open. The man who posted this on youtube also did so for his parents. Richard Tauber was for my earthly father. This also is for him, entreating a Heavenly Father: Surfeit of fathers? I had a stepfather too. Think my e.f. liked this but it [...]
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Some words from the noble bard [JD reminds us of this day]: # Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish’d and deck’d in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely [...]
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This is my third and final on Maggie. Nowhere are there stronger feelings than in Liverpool. Where the Liverpudlians were wrong:
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Was there ever a more hated tax in fair England, apart from the hearth tax? Talk about a death warrant for any politician’s policies. Smithfield was such a disappointment. Just why it should all fall apart after Wat Tyler died doesn’t say much for the peasants. Richard II was well out of order: “Rustics you [...]
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# In an era in which politicians are all too often greeted with indifference, it is easy to forget that Britain was once led by a woman who inspired passion – both love and loathing.” [Nick Robinson] # “Tramp the dirt down.” [George Galloway - what's the name of his party again?] # I will [...]
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USA Today: In typical fashion, Roger Ebert took to the Internet Tuesday night to share the news with his loyal blog followers that the disease that had robbed him of his voice, but not his determination to share his love of cinema, had returned. He warned that he would have to cut back on his [...]
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Utterly shocked by the passing of Jams O’Donnell [Shaun Downey]. Don’t know how or why but deepest sympathy to the lady he termed “the not wife”. He and I had a long blogging association – at one point, Cherie, he and I adminned a blog group Bloghounds. Then he came less and less to this [...]
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Pippa. No need to even put the surname, is there? So many comments asking why on earth is the DM wasting space on this social climbing nobody … … and then 1067 comments! LOL. … and I looked at the pics too. …and read the comments, such as: At least they recognised her and let [...]
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It’s also the Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland or in other words, Men’s Day.
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Alicia Keys is the perfect example of someone who should stick to what she does well, i.e. playing the piano and being pretty and perhaps letting the other things go. It’s when people go outside their range, outside their metier and aren’t terribly good at other things, that it becomes a tad embarrassing, especially when [...]
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… one last nostalgic look:
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With the discovery in a carpark of Rick the Third [I was tempted but this is a family blog], it’s obviously time to do a piece on Josephine Tey, is it not? Who? Well yes – Agatha and Naomi got the plaudits but this lady wrote every bit as well and even better in many [...]
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Very evocative of those war and post war times, the last of the Andrews Sisters has died, severing another link with that era.
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May we all last as long – check the outfits:
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No sign of Rorschach then? See ‘Godwin’.
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Aside from his theorems and formulae, did Einstein pursue anything else in his laboratory? In a scenario fitting for a genius, love first bloomed for Albert in the physics lab at the Swiss Polytechnic School in 1901. There, he quickly attached himself to Mileva Maric, a brilliant young Serbian girl who was the only female [...]
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South African who decamped to Australia? Well yes, he can be forgiven for that. Provocative and detested by many? Also yes. Formidable? Most certainly. Heart attack eh? Haven’t mentioned that I’ve been getting pains across my chest too of late. Quietly note Greig’s manner of passing and think – hmmmm.
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Vale:
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Dave Brubeck, who has died aged 91, was one of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century. Brubeck, with his studious manner and earnest progressivism, aroused sharply conflicting views among musicians and critics. Charlie Parker admired him, whereas Miles Davis found his playing deficient in swing. Jazz aficionados, suspicious of his great popularity, [...]
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Vale, Clive Dunn.
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Today is Ada Lovelace day. [No, no relation to.] Good piece at El Reg on her and her contribution to science as a woman. Unfortunately, she was latched onto by the F*m*n*z*s in the 60s and pressganged into being a feminist icon, along with many other women of note who were nothing of the kind [...]
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A patriot, war hero, touch of the eccentric, beautiful wife, adventurous, canny in business, not afraid to try something new. Vale from this blog. Condolences to Princess Joan and family. One … two … three: • Wired magazine profiled Sealand last year in a piece by Simson Garfinkle called “Welcome to Sealand, Now Bugger Off”. [...]
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When research draws a blank and it shouldn’t: For the first time I’ve hit a blank wall: someone with no background that I can get at least one-deep on who has been in the news who has had high visibility. I hit all my usual sources and a few out of the ordinary, like looking [...]
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